The war round Paris still drags on. M. Thiers has
occupied lay, and the Bretons are said to be camped in the Bois de Boulogne; but no attack has yet been made on the enceinte, and it is believed that the Government waits for some aid from within which it has purchased. M. Thiers issued on Sunday a proclamation to the Parisians in which he speaks of the Communists as a few tyrants whom the Germans are anxious to put down without mercy, declares that he will not bombard Paris—which he is born- 'barding all the while—and calls on the Parisians, "who are a hundredfold more numerous than the Communist sectarians," to take up arms and render an assault useless. That failing, he must carry Paris by assault. The proclamation is a very feeble affair, but it has excited a transport of rage in the Commune, which immediately decreed the sale of M. Thiers' furniture and the destruction of his house; a babyish bit of revenge, as M. Thiers will, if he wins, be compensated by Paris. It is strongly believed that the assault was fixed for Friday, but nothing is certain ex- cept that the Communists are becoming downcast and beginning to distrust every one.
